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1901
—Western Isles, Ecosse Atlantique, United Kingdom

He was born in Scotland on December 1901 in Glasgow Scotland. His parents were John Mackay and Susan Durnion, married Helensburgh September 1900. He attended Saint Mary's School and Saint Mungo's in the east end of Glasgow. He was brought up in South Uist at North Boisdale and was a native speaker. He was a chef by occupation, a pastry chef. He died in 1947 in New York. His family are still living in Scotland and he has nephews and nieces in New York.. I think the occupation is wrong. There was another John MacKay in the census returns with that occupation. His father was the telegraph en gineer for the Post Office Telegraph at Lochboisdale. He set up the wirele.ss station at St Kilda

In the initial army record he is recorded as an aircraft electrical mechanic. According to family oral tradition he was the sweet chef at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. In the army he was at Guadalcanal and witnessed the destruction of the field kitchen by the Japanese. In the 1941 census he lives with his sister and brother in law in Brooklyn. His sister was Margaret Murray, nee Mac Kay and her husband was William Love Murray. His nieces were Margaret and Susan, and nephews William and Wee Johnny. The latter is a family name and is the anglified version of the Highland name Iain